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New Arrivals & Recommendations

New & On Order Fiction

Wayward Girls: A Novel
Wayward Girls: A Novelby Susan WiggsFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption when six girls come together in a Catholic reform school in 1960s Buffalo, NY. Perfect for fans of Before We Were Yours, Orphan Train, and The Berry Pickers.

also available in audio
  • Wayward Girls: A Novel
  • That Last Carolina Summer 
  • The Woman in Suite 11
  • The View from Lake Como
  • Edge of Honor
  • An Inside Job
  • The Unraveling of Julia
  • Dogged Pursuit
  • The White Crow
  • Designed With Love
  • The Hamptons Lawyer
  • You Belong Here
  • Smuggler's Cove
  • Do Not Disturb
  • She Didn't See It Coming
  • The Red Queen
  • Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Escape
  • Dead Line
  • Rage
  • The List
  • Coded Justice: A Thriller
  • Wayward Girls: A Novel
  • That Last Carolina Summer 
  • The Woman in Suite 11
  • The View from Lake Como
  • Edge of Honor

New & On Order Nonfiction

Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolutionby Molly Beer
A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's influential sister-in-law.
 
  • Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
  • The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon
  • Bad to Blue: The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective
  • The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War With Forbidden Literature
  • Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story
  • Clint: The Man and the Movies
  • The Great Chinese Art Heist: Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
  • The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It
  • How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence
  • The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
  • In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea
  • It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia : How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-running Live-action Sitcom in History and Help Build a Network
  • JFK Public, Private, Secret
  • A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark's Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII
  • A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  • The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
  • Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWS Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
  • Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
  • Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined
  • The Relaxed Woman: Reclaim Rest and Live an Empowered, Joy-Filled Life
  • The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
  • Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
  • Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three
  • We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
  • A Year With the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
  • Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
  • The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon
  • Bad to Blue: The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective
  • The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War With Forbidden Literature
  • Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story

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BEGINNING APRIL 2025: Library DVDs are now completely free to check out—no more 75-cent fee, just great movies at no cost!

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